Back in February, specs leaked for a device code named the M4, referred to as the HTC One’s (M7) little brother. The specs included a 4.3″ 720p display, 2GB of RAM, a dual-core Snapdragon processor, and it ran the latest version of Android, 4.2. Today, a render has leaked for this device and it is dubbed, the HTC One Mini.

For anyone that might be interested in the design of the One, but desires a smaller display, this is your phone. According to the leak, the phone features just about the same specs that were leaked a couple of months ago, except now it states this device has an Ultrapixel camera and 4G LTE connectivity.

Launch is said to be penciled in for the end of Q2, but there is no word on price.

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If I were in the market for a phone currently this would be a definite
contender. I’m not one to want a huge display on my phone, but a smaller
phone that’s still well-built and has decent hardware(read that as not
best, but still good) is excellent.

The people that don’t need or have never handled large screen phones will love this. I cant go smaller from my S3, my fiance’s Incredible 2 feels sooooooo small that .3″ bigger just doesn’t mean much. But she would love this. And I like the screen res with the speakers…sooo glad it’s not qHD.

LionStone

Yep, this will be a great upgrade to my girl’s Inc 4Glte too! 🙂

YouSeeLA11

1,700 mAh battery?? Pass…even a Mini version should have at least 2000 mAh. I mean running 720p HD on a 4.3″ screen is going to be a battery killer. Running BlinkFeed in the background? It’ll be lucky to get 5 hours…

LionStone

That’s what people said about the DNA’s 1080p screen and it does just fine with a 2020 mAh 🙂

paul_cus

I like where they’re going with this and it’s a viable option for sure, but I’m still going to go with the Sony Xperia ZL. It’s got a 5 inch screen in a reasonable footprint.

Brett R

If I were in the market for a phone currently this would be a definite contender. I’m not one to want a huge display on my phone, but a smaller phone that’s still well-built and has decent hardware(read that as not best, but still good) is excellent.

I wish the screen was 4″ instead of 4.3″, but if I can replace whatever interface HTC has on there with a different launcher and get myself to live with less than 16gb of storage, then I am on board, as I want to upgrade from my HTC One V, but don’t want a big phone.

jnt

A little worried about battery life, but it’s nice to see quality screens on “mid range” devices. 720p on a 4.3″ is plenty of pixel density. This should be a very solid device.

That batter is more than sufficient if the OS uses it efficiently. The iPhone has around a 1430 mAh battery and outlasts most smart phones despite having a significantly smaller battery. But I think that’s more of a problem with Android in general. I think Android needs to impliment a native battery saver mode where it moderates or kills all background processes from waking the phone and syncing online. Not just clock the CPU lower, lower the brightness and disable vibrate like most OEM skins/UI’s do.

maybeONEmini

13MP Ultra Pixel? 32gb? Then we could talk about it.

cortesjues

the camera would have to be huge for it to be a 13MP Ultra Pixel… like a third of the phone kind of big

why are you comparing phones without a case in size to phones with cases? That’s apples to oranges. If you’re going to brag about the size of your Note 2 then compare it to the rezound and iphone without a case. Assuming your Note 2 doesn’t have a case because you didn’t mention it.

It’s so much more productive on a bigger device. Everything is useless if it’s small.

T4rd

Is it the S4 or Snapdragon 400 (I think) that’s in the HTC First? If it’s the 400, then is considerably better than the S4, exp. with the Adreno 320 vs 225 in the S4 SoC that’s in the GS3. I don’t think they would put last years architecture in a new phone when they’ve already used new architechture in the First.

Also, 720p in a 4.3″ display is still damn good. That’s 341 PPI. The Rezound (though it was/is a POS otherwise) had the highest PPI of any phone until the 1080p phones (like the DNA/J Butterfly) came out. You can’t really discern pixels with the naked eye past 320 PPI or so and I think I’d rather have better performance/battery life with the 720p display than a way overkill 1080p display at 4.3″.

That’s good for you. Except I don’t carry my tablet around everywhere. Mostly used for movies. And the nexus 7 is different because the bezels are huge. Even A 6in phone wouldn’t even come close to the size of the Nexus 7.

T4rd

That’s cool for you, but you can’t deny that there’s a huge demand for smaller higher end phones too. I know a lot of people that complain about phones getting too large and just want a moderate sized phone with decent specs, if you watch/listen to the Verge casts or other popular tech casts, then you hear a lot of professional critics/reviews beg for a smaller phone. The HTC First is actually pretty popular among some of them simply due to its smaller form factor and decent specs aside from the camera.